Quotes from George Sand

Our work can never be better than we are ourselves.

I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task ... a passion.

Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to by wits'-end by urgent work, business to attent do or some service to render.

Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.

... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?

... the progress of the language has caused us to lose many old treasures. It is thus with all progress, and one must make the best of it.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength his glory and his pleasure.

If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: Take two aspirin and Keep away from children.

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.

Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.

[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!

It is love, not faith, that moves mountains.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm a state of intellectual magnificence which we must not squander on our way through life.

One never knows how much a family may grow; and when a hive is too full, and it is necessary to form a new swarm, each one thinks of carrying away his own honey.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship.

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry.

Love is more tiring than friendship for it demands continuous proofs.